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1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar .
Events
January
February
March March 1 - The Berne Convention is ratified and enters into force with regard to the United States March 1 - A curfew is imposed in Kosovo where protests continue at the alleged intimidation of the Serb minorityMarch 1 - Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce , serving under President George Herbert Walker Bush March 1 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy , serving under President George Herbert Walker Bush March 1 - The Politieke Partij Radicalen , Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij , Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelische Volks Partij amalgamate to form Netherlands political party the GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft)March 2 - 12 European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end centuryMarch 4 - Time, Inc . and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time-Warner March 4 - The Purley rail crash - 5 dead, 94 injuredMarch 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie 's "The Satanic Verses"March 9 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy March 14 - Gun control : President George Herbert Walker Bush bans the importation of assault rifles into the United States March 18 - In Egypt , a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Great Pyramid of Giza March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah March 23 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill : In Alaska 's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez oil after running agroundMarch 27 - The first free elections for the Soviet parliament go against the communist party
April-May
June-July June 1 - The SkyDome stadium is opened in Toronto June 3 - The Ayatollah Khomeini diesJune 4 - Suppression of the Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing and is covered live on televisionJune 4 _ Solidarity 's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland spark off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe . June 4 - Train disaster : A natural gas explosion near Ufa , Russia kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline June 7 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.June 13 - The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck , which was sunk in 1941, is located 600 miles west of Brest , France June 14 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer. [1] (http://www.mugshots.net/zsa-zsa-gabor/ ) June 21 - British police arrest 250 citizens for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge June 22 - Irelands first universities are established since independence in 1922 , they are Dublin City University and University of Limerick July 2 - Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister of Greece resigns. New government formed under Tzannis Tzannetakis July 6 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by British reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.July 19 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board surviveJuly 19 - The BBC programme "Panorama " accuses Lady Porter Tory Leader of Westminster City Council of "gerrymandering "July 20 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi placed under house arrestAugust 20 - The Marchioness collides with the dredger Bowbelle on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge _ 51 deadAugust 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon TritonJuly 26 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus , making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
August The asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by radar from Arecibo August 6 - The comic strip Bloom County ends.August 7 - US Congressman Mickey Leland (D_TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia August 8 - STS-28: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.August 18 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia .August 19 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister , thus becoming the first non_communist in power in 42 years.August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California , Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in their family's den.August 20 - 51 people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames .August 23 - Baltic Way, uninterrupted 600 kilometre human chain, in which two million indigenous people of Estonia , Lithuania , then still occupied by the Soviet Union , joined hands to demand freedom and independenceAugust 23 - Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria
September-October
November November 4 - Typhoon Gay devastes the Thai province ChumphonNovember 7 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia and becomes the first elected African American governor in the United States November 7 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City .November 7 - In California , convicted murderer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.November 9 - Cold War : Communist -controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall , allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down).November 10 - After 45 years of communist rule in Bulgaria , Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Prime Minister Petar Mladenov , who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party .November 12 - Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960 November 16 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter are shot in San Salvador , El Salvador November 16 - South African President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act November 17 - Cold War : Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by the communist riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeded on December 29 )November 20 - Cold War : Velvet Revolution - The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague , Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.Tuesday, November 21, 1989 - North Carolina celebrates its bicentennial statehood.November 22 - In west Beirut , a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him.November 28 - Cold War : Velvet Revolution - With other communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December brought the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years)November 30 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a terrorist's bomb (the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility of the murder)November 30 - A storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida named Richard Mallory takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos and is seen for the last time (Mallory became the first of seven people killed by the female serial killer over the next year)
December
Unknown Dates
Year in topic 1989 in film Friday, April 21, 1989 - Field of Dreams Wednesday, May 24, 1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Harrison Ford and Sean Connery Friday, June 2, 1989 - Dead Poets Society Wednesday, June 14, 1989 - Do the Right Thing Friday, June 23, 1989 - Batman Wednesday, July 12, 1989 - When Harry Met Sally... Wednesday, August 9, 1989 - The Abyss Ed Harris , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , and Michael Biehn Wednesday, November 22, 1989 - Back to the Future Part II Michael J. Fox Wednesday, December 13, 1989 - Driving Miss Daisy Saturday, December 16, 1989 - Godzilla vs Biollante (Japanese release date) Wednesday, December 20, 1989 - Born on the Fourth of July 1989 in literature 1989 in music 1989 in rail transport 1989 in sports 1989 in television
Births
Deaths
January_July January 6 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed crossing the GDR borderJanuary 7 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan January 21 - Billy Tipton , jazz musician (b. 1914 )January 23 - Salvador Dalí , artistJanuary 24 - Ted Bundy , serial killer (electrocuted )February 3 - John Cassavetes , actor , director , writerFebruary 6 - Roy Eldridge , jazz musician (b. 1911 )February 6 - Barbara W. Tuchman , historian February 9 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artistFebruary 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor /director February 27 - Konrad Lorenz March 9 - Robert Mapplethorpe , artistMarch 19 - Alan Civil , English French horn player (b. 1929 )April 26 - Lucille Ball , actress , comedienne April 30 - Sergio Leone , director May 14 - E. P. Taylor , Canadian business tycoonMay 20 - Gilda Radner , comedian , actress June 3 - The Iranian religious and political figureJune 15 - Victor French , 55, Actor & Director (b.1934 )June 28 -
Results from FactBites:
In This Year ... 1989 (113 words)
This area contains a list of interesting reports based around the 7101 titles in the IMDb for 1989 . The form below allows you to search the database for titles from 1989 only. The A-Z index enables you to browse the titles alphabetically.
1989 Gold Sovereigns (1023 words)
The 1989 sovereign, as all dates of sovereign from 1983 to 1999 inclusive, was only available as a proof. It was only in about 2003 or 2004 that demand for the 1989 proof sovereigns started to really outstrip supply, until then we managed to maintain a selling price of about £150, rising to £195, until we were eventually forced to readjust our prices in line with the rest of the market. The 1989 gold Proof sovereign features two new designs by Bernard Sindall, both of which are modern adaptations of the original sovereign design of 1489, The reverse is a Shield of the Royal Arms ensigned by an open Royal Crown, the whole superimposed upon a double rose and the circumscription
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